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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the film that the narrator is to advise about?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Apocalypse Now.
(c) The Hamlet.
(d) Plattoon.

2. How old was the communist agent with the papers in her mouth when she was arrested?
(a) 32.
(b) 22.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

3. The narrator writes to the Commandant in Chapter 7, "We're revolutionaries, and revolutionaries can never be" what?
(a) "Innocent."
(b) "Killed."
(c) "Honest."
(d) "Betrayed."

4. What author does the narrator say that Man had introduced him and Bon to in Chapter 1?
(a) Alexandre Dumas.
(b) Richard Hedd.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.

5. What food item does the narrator describe missing terribly in his letter to his aunt in Chapter 4?
(a) Pho.
(b) Lemongrass.
(c) Fish sauce.
(d) Soy sauce.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what religion does Bon ascribe?

2. On what day of the week does the General's store opening occur in Chapter 5?

3. The narrator describes working his first assignment under whose supervision at the National Interrogation Center in Saigon?

4. On what date did the Fall of Saigon occur?

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Under Asian communism, everything but" what "is free"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does the narrator become entranced by at the wedding in Chapter 7? Why?

2. How would you describe the narrator's relationships with his parents?

3. How would you describe the narrator and protagonist of The Sympathizer?

4. What does the narrator say about the crapulent major's death in Chapter 7?

5. How does the narrator describe "breaking" the Watchman in Chapter 11?

6. Who are the "Vietnamese" actors in The Hamlet with speaking roles and how are they described?

7. What does the narrator remark about propaganda in Chapter 11?

8. How is the theme of sympathy explored in Chapter 12?

9. How is the theme of religion explored in Chapter 5?

10. What information does the narrator learn from Man in Chapter 4? How does he receive this information?

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